Kali Murray
Biography
Professor Kali Murray is a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School. Professor Murray's research agenda is focused on the "politics of participation" in patent, property and administrative law.
In patent law, Professor Murray is interested in how the doctrinal formation of patent law is impacted by different administrative, political, and social structures. Among her works, she has published a book, The Politics of Patent Law: Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain, as a part of the Routledge Research Series in Intellectual Property Law in 2013. Professor Murray's commitment to exploring these subjects has also extended to her work with the Administrative Conference of the United States on the utity of small claims court in patent law as well as submission of a series of amicus briefs addressing the role of constitutional claims under 1st and 13th Amendment to limit patents in genetic information. Her current work, Infrostructure(s), has been published in Volume 71 of the Buffalo Law Review in Fall 2023 (https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/buffalolawreview/) and will focus on how public rights in information are constructed.
In property law, Professor Murray is interested in the impact of race, ethnicity and culture on the development of property law. She is the lead co-author on Integrating Spaces: Property Law and Social Identity (https://aspenpublishing.com/products/integratingspaces-2e).
In administrative law, Prof. Murray has focused on how administrative law can successfully manage heterogeneous policy environments, address social and political vulnerabilities of citizens, and structure information exchange between administrative actors and the regulated communities. Examples of this focus are her work, include Charles Reich's Unruly Administrative State, published in the Yale Law Review Online Forum (https://www.yalelawjournal.org/collection/charles-reich-tribute), and Status, Subject and Agency in Innovation Law (https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=elj-online).
Prof. Murray is also a Co-Director of Marquette University Law School's Intellectual Property Program. As Co-Director of Intellectual Property Program, Prof. Murray, works along with Prof. Bruce Boyden to serve as Faculty Adviser to the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, to mentor students in moot court activities, and to plan the Intellectual Property Colloquium Speaker Series.
Prof. Murray has also worked extensively on diversity and equity issues. Professor Murray has served as Committee Member on the AALS Faculty Workshop on Pre-Tenured Faculty of Color and has served as a chair for the Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Intellectual Property Section and the Board of Directors for the Association for Law, Society and Property.
Before coming to Marquette, Professor Murray joined the University of Mississippi School of Law, after engaging in private practice for four years with the law firm of Venable, LLP in Washington, D.C., as a patent litigator with a focus on pharmaceutical patent litigation. Professor Murray also served as a federal judicial clerk for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland.
Professor Murray holds a B.A., summa cum laude, and M.A. in History from Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on the socio-cultural formation of African-American political identity in the early national period. She received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law and was the Spring Symposium Editor for the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum.